Sunday, August 25, 2024

Have the IDF's massive preemptive strikes prevented all-out war in Lebanon? - analysis

 

Usually, a massive strike by one party in a conflict leads to a larger war.

Certainly, in the current war, predictions have been that if the IDF went an inch too far in its attacks on Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group would savage Israel's home front with 6,000-8,000 rockets per day and mass drone swarms.

And that nightmare scenario could still happen.


But as Israelis awoke Sunday morning, the most likely picture was radically different.

Using immense intelligence capabilities and having constantly had huge numbers of aircraft and drones in the air for weeks since the July 30 killing of Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr, the IDF carried out over 100 virtually simultaneous attacks against Hezbollah rocket launching platforms in a matter of minutes or less than half an hour shortly before 5:00 a.m. READ MORE